Recent discussions on the abolition of patents for inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands
Evidence, Speeches, and Papers in its Favour BY Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, C.B.; M. BENARD, Editor of the “ Siècle ” and “ Journal des Economistes ;” Count Von BISMARCK; M. CHEVALIER, Senator and Member of the Institute of France; M. FOCK; M. GODEFROI; Mr. MACFIE, M.P., Director, or Member, of the Liverpool, Edinburgh, and Leith Chambers of Commerce and Merchants’ House of Glasgow; Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, M.P., late Attorney-General, &c.; Right Hon. LORD STANLEY, M.P., Chairman of the late Royal Commission on Patent-Law; JAMES STIRLING, Esq., Author of “Considerations on Banks and Bank-Management,” “Letters from the South,” &c.; and others.
WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS REGARDING INVENTIONS AND COPYRIGHT.
LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER. 1869.
“La legislation des brevets d’invention peut avoir l’effet d’entraver notre commerce d’exportation, et de priver l’industrie nationale de débouches utiles.... Un brevet est un privilége et un monopole. Pour que le monopole puisse être reconnu par la loi, il est indispensable qu’il repose sur un droit certain ou sur une utilité publique parfaitement établie. Le peu qui précède suffit ce me semble a démontre que l’utilité publique n’existe pas.... Le brevet d’invention a-t-il pour base un droit positif? Il semble pourtant que non....
“Telles sont les réflexions qui sont venues à un certain nombre d’hommes éclairés depuis quelque années et qui ont l’assentiment d’un bon nombre d’hommes des plus notables parmi les chefs d’industrie. Elles ont de l’écho dans touts les pays civilisés, et en Angleterre pour le moins autant qu’en France—(1) Elles ne tendent à rien moins qu’à renverser le système même des brevets d’invention, sauf à rémunérer par une dotation spéciale tout homme ingénieux qui serait reconnu, après un certain temps d’expérience, avoir rendu à la société un service signalé par quelque découverte. C’est ainsi qu’il a été procédé en France à l’égard des inventeurs de la photographie.”—From the Introduction to the “Rapports du Jury International de l’Exposition 1862, publies sous la direction de M. Michel Chevalier, President de la Section Française.”
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CONTENTS.
LETTER FROM PROFESSOR THOROLD ROGERS.
REMARKS ON A RECENT ARTICLE.
SPEECHES AND PAPERS ON THE ABOLITION OF PATENTS.
NOTES OF SPEECH OF MR. MACFIE, M.P.
SPEECH OF SIR R. PALMER, K.B., M.P.
SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD STANLEY, M.P.
PATENT RIGHT.
ARE INVENTIONS PROPERTY?
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
II.
III.
EXPERIENCE IN FRANCE.
THE RESULTS OF A BAD LAW.
I.
II.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE CONFEDERATION, COUNT VON BISMARCK, TO THE NORTH GERMAN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.
PROPOSITION FOR THE ABOLITION OF PATENTS IN HOLLAND.
Session of Tuesday, 22nd June.
FROM THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT MEMORIAL.
OPINION OF THE LEADING JOURNAL OF HOLLAND, THE “ALGEMEEN HANDELSBLAD.”
EXTRACT FROM AN OBLIGING PRIVATE LETTER.
FROM THE “FRANKFORT JOURNAL,” JULY 21.
PROCEEDINGS IN LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM SIR WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, C.B.
FROM ANOTHER HIGH PRACTICAL AUTHORITY, LIKEWISE A NOTABLE INVENTOR.
FROM ANDREW JOHNSTON, ESQ., M.P.
ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN COPYRIGHT AND PATENT-RIGHT.
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PATENT SYSTEM.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT ON THE PATENT QUESTION.
EXTRACTS FROM RECENT CLASS PERIODICALS.
A Good Illustration and Bad Argument.
Growth of Strange Views among Surgeons.
What Preliminary Investigation Requires.
Hard Pushed for a Defence of Patents.
PATENT RIGHTS AND PATENT WRONGS.
REPORT OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF COLOGNE ON THE PATENT QUESTION.
EXTRACTS FROM M. VERMEIRE.
MOVEMENTS IN GERMANY, BELGIUM, AND HOLLAND.
EXTRACT OF LETTER, BRUSSELS, JUNE 11, 1869.
GERMANY.
HOLLAND.
ON PERPETUITY OF PATENT-RIGHT.
NOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF MR. MACFIE’S SPEECH.
THE AMERICAN PATENT-LAW.
HINDMARCH ON “VENDING OR SELLING.”
SUGGESTIVE EXTRACTS FROM DR. PERCY’S WORKS ON METALLURGY.
WORKING MEN AS INVENTORS.
THE INVENTORS’ INSTITUTE.
JUSTIFICATION OF STATE REWARDS.
THE PATENT-OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT.
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF COPYRIGHT FOR BOOKS, BY MR. MACFIE.
I.
EXTRACTS ON INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.
EXTRACT FROM THE COBDEN CLUB PRIZE ESSAY, BY DR. LEAVITT, OF NEW YORK. 1869.
FROM A MANUSCRIPT STATEMENT BY MR. PURDAY.
LETTER FROM THE SAME.
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE ON COPYRIGHT LAW IN CANADA.
TENDENCIES OF COPYRIGHT AMENDERS.
COLONIAL DUTIES ON COPYRIGHT WORKS.
EXAMINATIONS BY CUSTOMS’ OFFICERS.
THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BOOK TRADE.
Books Printed in the United Kingdom, Exported therefrom.
INDEX.
ERRATA.
